Type-writing machine.



Patented Aug. 6, 190i. .1. FELBEL.

TYPE WRITING MACHINE.

(Application filed June 99, 1900.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB FELBEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO YOST \VRITING MACHINE COMPANY, OF ILION, NEW YORK.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,960, dated August 6, 1901.

' Application filed June 22, 1900- To to whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, JACOB FELBEL,\1 citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to type-inking pads, and more especially to the kind employed in the Yost typewriter. As heretofore constructed and mounted the pad of said machine is difficult or inconvenient to insert and remove and in the operation the fingers usually become smeared with ink.

Certain objects of my invention are to so construct the ink-pad case and its support that the pad-case may be easily and quickly placed in position or removed and without the necessity of the fingers coming in contact with the inked portions of the pad.

Other objects of the invention will hereinafter appear.

My invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of devices, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth,

and particularly pointed out in the concluding claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the type-ring and type-bars of a Yost writing-machine, showing my improved pad-case and its supporting-ring in working or normal position.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the lips by which the pad-case is locked in position. Fig. 3 is a plan of the type-bar ring and the pad-case thereon, the pad being omitted. Fig. 4 is a plan of a fragment of the type-bar ring or pad-case-supportingring and showing a seat for a locking-lip. Fig. 5 is a bottom plan View of the pad-case. Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation taken on the line X X of Fig. 3.

In the several views parts are omitted or broken away more clearly to disclose the invention, and similar parts are designated by similar numerals of reference.

The jointed type-bars 1 are slotted to engage a fulcrum-ring 2, which is rigidly supported upon an annular casting 3, forming part of the framework of the machine. The

Serial No. 21,132. (No model.)

bars are held in place upon said fulcrum-ring by a cap-ring 4, which is suitably supported upon the main ring 3 and may be considered as forming one part of the type-bar ring. The type ends of the type-bars rest normally against a ring-shaped ink-pad 5, from which they are moved by means of key-operated rods 6 to strike a platen 7, a center type-guide 8 being arranged just below the platen and supported upon a bracket 9. The pad 5 is square in cross-section and fits tightly in a ring-shaped metallic case 10, which opens inwardly and is formed, preferably, in one piece. The case 10 is supported on the ring 4 and is not a complete or continuous ring, but is divided at 11, and its adjoining ends are capped or closed, as at 12. The construction just described is found in the Yost typewriting machine.

I have provided upon the under side of the pad-case, preferably at its forward portion, a pair of outwardly-turned depending hooks 13, which are about equally distant from the break or division 11 and from each other. Upon the supporting cap-ring 4 is provided a pair of lips 14, with which said hooks engage and by which the front portion of the padcase is held firmly down upon the ring 4. Said lips 14 are preferably in the form of small plates which fit in crescent-shaped depressions 15,formedin the upper surface of the ring 4, and are secured by screws 16, which engage threaded holesin said ring. The ends of the case are preferably held in place by an overhanging bracket comprising a horizontal elevated plate 18 and vertical supportingears 19, the latter being secured by screws 20 to the ring 4. There is just enough space between the top of the ring 4 and the under surface of the overhanging plate 18 to admit the pad-case, and hence the ends of the latter are prevented from rising and are maintained in V the same plane or in their proper working positions. The pad-case ends are provided with outwardly-extending curved or doublewedged lugs or bearers 21, which engage the inner vertical faces of the ears 19 and aid in positioning the case. When the latter is out of the machine, its ends spring apart, so that the diameter of the case is somewhat enlarged and the ends are slightly separated,

as shown at Fig. 5; but when said case is in position the diameter'thereof is contracted by the cooperation of the books 13, lips 14, bearcrs 21, and ears 19,.s0 that the ends meet, as shown at Figs. 3 and 6.

The annular pad-case may be detached by rotating it in either direction suificiently to disengage the hooks 13 from the lips 14, said rotary movement being conveniently effected by means of short spoke-like handles 22, projecting from forward portions of the pad-case. The case may then be withdrawn from the machine, the type-bars being first bunched together in the usual manner.

VVhen' replacing thepad-case in position or inserting a new pad-case, it is laid or brought upon the type-ring 4 in a manner somewhat similar to the present Yost case and with the hooks 13 extending down alongside the lips, 14 and so that the ends of the case lie just under one end of the plate 18, which latter is flared upwardly or formed with inclined wings 23 to facilitate the insertion of said case ends and force the latter down to proper position. The cap-ring 4 is provided with an annular recess or cut-away at 24 of such diameter that the hooks may pass freely or loosely down alongside of the lips 14. By means of the han dies 22 the case is given a slight rotation to,

bring the ends under the middle'of the plate 18. During this rotation the side edges of the hooks 13 work inwardly upon the beveled edges 25 of the lips 14, thus springing these portions of the case inwardly, and at the same time the sloping cam-like edges of the bearers 21 cooperate with the verticalears or plates 19 to crowd the meeting ends of the pad-case also inwardly, so that the said ends are brought together and the diameter of the pad-case as a whole iscontracted, as shown at Fig. 3, and the case is locked firmly in position upon the type ring or support. The beveled edges 25 of the lips are undercut or beveled at26, so

that incase the hooks 13 should stand atrifle 4&5"

has been brought to a position loosely upon above their normal positions when the case the type-ring they may engage the bevel 26 and be thereby forced downwardly aswell as inwardly during the rotation of the case, so that they may properly engage the middle portions of the lips.

Itlwill be observed that I have provided a curved support 4 and a curved pad-case 10-,

in combination with locking means, the whole being so constructed and arranged that the pad-case may beplaced loosely upon the support and bya slight rotation locked thereon, the locking means operating automatically when the case is rotated. By the use of the handles all liability of soiling the fingers is avoided.

. The lips and hooks may be of any desired length and width.

The pad-case may be made and sold as a separate article of. manufacture.

Variations may be made in the details of construction, and some parts may be used without others, as indicated by the claims.

While I have shown my improvements as applied to a Yost machine, it will be understood vthat they-may be applied also to padmachines of other design.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a type-writing machine, the combination with a curved support, of a curved rotatable pad-case, and catching devices on said support and case, said parts being so constructed and arranged that the pad-case may be placed loosely upon the support and by a slight rotation thereon-cause a locking engagement between the members of said catching devices.

2. In a type-writing machine, the combination with a support, of a rotatable pad-case made in ring form, handles thereon, and looking' devices, the whole being so constructed and arranged that the padrcase may be placed upon the support and by said handles given a slight rotation and looked upon said support 3. Ina type-writing machine, the combina-- tion with a support,- of a rotatable pad-case made in ring form and having a division, as 11, handles 22 thereon, and locking devices,- the whole being so constructed and arranged that the pad-case may be placed upon the support and by a slight rotation locked thereon and simultaneously contracted in diameter. 4. In a type-writing machine, the combination with a type-ring, of lips thereon, and a pad-case arranged upon said type-ring and having depending hooks to engage said lips.

5.- Ina type-writing machine, the combination of ring 4 having lips 14, overhanging bracket 18, 19, and divided annular pad-case 10 having bearers 21 and hooks 13. V 6. In a type-writing machine, the combina-- tion witha curved pad-case having hooks 13, of a curved support, and lips 14 provided upon said support and having beveled portions 25 to engage said hooks.

7. In a type-writing machine, the combination with a curved pad-case having hooks 13, a of. a curved support, and lips 14 provided upon said support and having beveled portions. 25 to engage said hooks, said beveled portions 25. beingundercnt at 26.

8. In a type-writing machine, the combination with a curved rotatable pad-case and a support, of a handle 22 arranged thereon, and means operating automatically when said case is rotated by said handle for locking said pad-case upon the support.

9. In a type-writing machine, the combination with a support, of a ring-like divided rotatable pad-case, handles 22', and means operating automatically upon rotating the pad-case by means of said handles for contracting the diameter of the pad-case and looking it in position.

10. In a type-writin g machine,the combination of a type-ring having an inwardly-projecting lip 14, and an annular ink-pad case arranged to rotate upon said ring and having a rigid hook 13 adapted to engage and disengage said lip by rotative movements of the case on the ring.

13. In a type-writing machine,the combination of a type-ring having an inwardly-projecting lip 14 and an annular ink-pad case arranged to rotate upon said ring and having a handle 22 and a hook 13, the latter being adapted to engage and disengage the lip 14 by rotative movements of said case on said ring.

14. An annular pad-case having a pair of hooks 13 projecting inwardly and downwardly and adapted to inwardly-projecting lips 14 supported upon a type-writing machine.

15. An annular pad-case having a pair of handles 22, whereby it may be rotated, and

17. An annular divided pad-case having a pair of downwardly and inwardly extending ears 13 adapted to lips 14, and also having near its ends a pair of outwardly-projecting bearers 21 adapted to ears 19, said lips and ears being suitably supported upon a type- Writing machine. I

- 18. An annular divided pad-case having a pair of handles 22, whereby it may be rotated, a pair of ears 13 extending inwardly and downwardly from-the lower portion of the pad-case and adapted to lips 14, and also having outwardly-projecting bearers 21, adapted to ears 19, said lips and ears being suitably mounted upon a type-writing machine.

Signed at borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 21st day of June,

JACOB FELBEL.

Witnesses:

K. V. DONOVAN, E. M. WELLS. 

